Gender Differences in Lifestyle and Attitudes among Middle-Aged Singles
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- Miwa Satoshi
- Institute of Social Science, The University of Tokyo
Bibliographic Information
- Other Title
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- 中年単身層における生活様式と意識にみられるジェンダー差
- チュウネン タンシンソウ ニ オケル セイカツ ヨウシキ ト イシキ ニ ミラレル ジェンダーサ
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Abstract
<p>The aim of this study was to examine the lifestyles, attitudes, and behaviors of middle-aged singles from a gender perspective. An exploratory statistical analysis of large-scale survey datasets found that, first, it was not necessarily the case with middle-aged singles that living in a single household generally led to dating and marriage; second, a significantly large number of middle-aged single women indicated that they had chosen not to marry because they did not want to lose their freedom; third, the distribution of basic variables for lifestyle and attitudes was similar between middle-aged single men and women; and fourth, while there was a systematic gender difference in terms of consultation networks and learning behavior among middle-aged singles, the degree of this difference was smaller than that among senior singles. Through a comprehensive examination, no significant gender differences were observed among middle-aged singles in terms of lifestyle, attitudes, and behaviors. Rather, it can be said that such a small gender difference is a characteristic of middle-aged singles.</p>
Journal
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- Kazoku syakaigaku kenkyu
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Kazoku syakaigaku kenkyu 31 (2), 160-171, 2019-10-31
Japan Society of Family Sociology
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- CRID
- 1390004951541300992
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- NII Article ID
- 130007933188
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- NII Book ID
- AN10092691
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- ISSN
- 18839290
- 0916328X
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- NDL BIB ID
- 030099556
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- Text Lang
- ja
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- Data Source
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- JaLC
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- Disallowed